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After receiving more than 90 submissions from 14 countries with a wide range of perspectives and reviewing them in parallel...

New study reveals promising drug target for treating osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a skeletal condition that leads to the weakening of bones, making them porous, fragile, and prone to breakage....

Unveiling Telo-seq: A breakthrough in telomere research on aging and cancer

Credit: Salk Institute Journal Nature Communications DOI 10.1038/s41467-024-48917-7 Method of Research Experimental study Article Title High resolution long-read telomere sequencing...

Restored rat-free islands could support hundreds of thousands more breeding seabirds

Hundreds of thousands more breeding pairs of seabirds could return to remote island archipelagos if invasive rats were removed and...

New “smart bandages” hold potential for revolutionizing the treatment of chronic wounds

Chronic wounds, which include diabetic ulcers, surgical wounds, pressure injuries, and other problems, are deadlier than many people realize. Patients...

Repurposed drug may help stabilize vision in rare disease

Roughly 50 families scattered across the world share ultra-rare variants in a particular gene. Silent for years, the inherited mutations...

Ancient remedies for modern woes: TCM in the fight against african swine fever

Recent research reveals the potential of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in combating African Swine Fever (ASF), a viral disease with...

Poll: Majority of Americans say key COVID-19 policies were a good idea—but views of individual policies vary

Embargoed for release: Monday, June 17, 6:00 AM ETCredit: Source: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/de Beaumont Foundation poll,...

Treatment of stress-induced exhaustion disorder has wrong focus

A new thesis at Uppsala University questions the traditional view of stress-induced exhaustion disorder. A new model is proposed in...

$18.5 million U19 grant will study B and T memory cells in transplanted lungs, uteruses and kidneys

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Memory immune cells reside in many tissues, poised to react to a second infection or continuing antigen....

Gonadal function in male mice disrupted by prenatal risk factors

Researchers have consistently shown that prenatal exposure to Di (2-ethyhexyl) phthalate harms the reproductive system in male mice and causes...

Infectious H5N1 influenza virus in raw milk rapidly declines with heat treatment

WHAT: The amount of infectious H5N1 influenza viruses in raw milk rapidly declined with heat treatment in laboratory research conducted...

Announcing Tally Health as tier 3 sponsor of ARDD 2024

The University of Copenhagen is excited to announce Tally Health as a Tier 3 Sponsor of the 11th Aging Research...

New mechanisms in the development of stroke were discovered